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Originally Posted by omk3
I haven't heard much else by them, but I love this song.
Funny how inspiration works. I would think that writers usually start with a plot or a character, and build around them, with the title and the cover coming last. Obviously it can work the other way around as well  |
I never plot and only rarely will I even think about characters. Most of my inspiration comes from music, an observation of something happening, a reaction to something happening or a lyric. For instance the story I wrote the other afternoon about D. Boon started off a couple of weeks ago when I saw the trailer for a 2007 documentary called "We Jam Econo" about the Minutemen. I've been a casual fan of the Minutemen for years (you've probably heard their music if you've ever seen that horrible show, Jackass. The Minutemen's song "Corona" is used for the theme music).
So I finally got the DVD and it struck me as how great they actually were, in all ways, not just fantastic musicians, but humble people with real passions and not the crappy "Some Country Has Talent" passion to be famous. And then D. Boon died. He died in 1985 in a car accident before the Minutemen ever made it big (they were on tour with R.E.M at the time). Here's someone who made the world a better place, a true artist, not some corporate wage monkey belting out tunes for the top 40, and he's gone in a flash.
So the only intention I had was to write a story celebrating D. Boon and the Minutemen but I had no idea how I could do that, so I just started writing whatever came to mind and it was done in about half an hour or so. I called it Corona (after their famous song) and it's a short story about two members of a band coming together waiting for the third.
Here's The Minutemen performing 'Corona' acoustically. D. Boon is the singer. Mike Watt on Bass and George Hurley on Bongos.